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体育

tǐ yù 3–4

sports; physical education

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
体 · 育
Syllables
2
tǐ yù
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,354

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 体tǐ7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 體body; group, class, body, unit; inferior
  • 育yù8 strokesHSK 2produce, give birth to; educate

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 体育无国界。

    Tǐ yù wú guó jiè

    Sport knows no borders.

  • 我们有上体育课。

    Wǒ men yǒu shàng tǐ yù kè

    We have physical education.

  • 他是一个体育爱好者。

    Tā shì yī gè tǐ yù ài hào zhě

    He is a lover of sports.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 体育. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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